What do the members of this site think of the coverage? Are there mistakes? Is every topic covered sufficiently according to its "importance"? Do people ever edit these pages, and are they happy with that experience? Let me know - I won't fix any problems you may have, but I can show you how you can.

What do the members of this site think of the coverage? Are there mistakes? Is every topic covered sufficiently according to its "importance"? Do people ever edit these pages, and are they happy with that experience? Let me know - I won't fix any problems you may have, but I can show you how you can.

I have used the Wiki page a lot for reference, but don't enough to know if there are any mistakes...

Sometime, when I try to post a link to a particular item such as this one for Eric: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_(novel) - the brackets around the word "novel" are not recognised as a viable code (the same goes for things like apostrophies) and therefore the link gets broken.

I know that sometimes I can substitute a "%" for a bracket and that will work, but it doesn't make for easy linking.

Is there an easy way to do this? Something like (as with some online news items) a 'link to this article' code would make things easier in cases like this.

“Men never commit evil so fully and joyfully as when they do it for religious convictions.” – Blaise Pascal

Sometime, when I try to post a link to a particular item such as this one for Eric: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_(novel) - the brackets around the word "novel" are not recognised as a viable code (the same goes for things like apostrophies) and therefore the link gets broken.

I know that sometimes I can substitute a "%" for a bracket and that will work, but it doesn't make for easy linking.

Is there an easy way to do this? Something like (as with some online news items) a 'link to this article' code would make things easier in cases like this.

I work as a volunteer for Wikipedia, I don't know how it works! There are some issues about coding, and it is probably best if you look for them yourselves. If you place "Wikipedia:" and then the search term such as "code" you will hopefully find a drop down menu with search results. If you do not find the specific page, choosing "Wikipedia:Code" will take you to a search page where all instances of those factors will be displayed. Hopefully you can find what you are looking for there. I know that there are people who are very knowledgeable about code and stuff - and I ain't one of them.

How does websites such as Wikipedia affect education? I remember having to read " of Mice and Men" in high school, and write a summary of the book. Now, I can just search it on wikipedia, and I have the whole book summary, the characters, and their involvement in the story.
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I, on the other hand, have been known to use it for classes... but I'm allowed to, I'm a teacher It's really convenient when it's 11PM the day before your lesson and you urgently need a detail about the history of Switzerland, or, as happened once, got William Jones mixed up with John Williams. I just have to rely on the hope that those kinds of subjects aren't the ones who get edit wars and subjectivity problems...